{"id":"01KFE0BT8CH1MDQ1RJ4ACXYQTZ","cid":"bafkreig6i2bftrhy5irnopsdan43udtgbpihrocfozf4rsk4q7a3nqqysq","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreicvrnz3l6e32z25vdzb3ai5lbr75iceggerzm5v4lw7y6k2ie6ufy","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0071.jpg","key":"pdf-page-1768922932948-gftuxviosm5","label":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0071.jpg","page_number":71,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":209005,"text":"CRIME AND PUNISHMENT \" 63\nand awfully uncouth in appearance, remarkably tall with long\nfeet that looked as if they were bent outwards. She always wore\nbattered goatskin shoes, and was clean in her person. What the\nstudent expressed most surprise and amusement about was the\nfact that Lizaveta was continually with child.\n\"But you say she is hideous?\" observed the ofiScer.\n\"Yes, she is so dark-skinned and looks like a soldier dressed\nup, but you know she is not at all hideous. She has such a good-\nnatured face and eyes. Strikingly so. And the proof of it is that\nlots of people are attracted by her. She is such a soft, gentle\ncreature, ready to put up with anything, always willing, willing\nto do anything. And her smile is really very sweet.\"\n\"You seem to find her attractive yourself,\" laughed theofficer.\n\"From her queerness. No, I'll tell you what. I could kill that\ndamned old woman and make oflF with her money, I assure you,\nwithout the faintest conscience-prick,\" the student added with\nwarmth. The officer laughed again while Raskolnikov shuddered.\nHow strange it was!\n\"Listen, I want to ask you a serious question,\" the student\nsaid hotly. \"I was joking of course, but look here; on one sidq\nwe have a stupid, senseless, worthless, spiteful, ailing, horrid\nold woman, not simply useless but doing actual mischief, who\nhas not an idea what she is living for herself, and who will die\nin a day or two in any case. You understand? You understand?\"\n\"Yes, yes, I understand,\" answered the officer, watching his\nexcited companion attentively.\n\"Well, listen then. On the other side, fresh young lives thrown\naway for want of help and by thousands, on every side! A hun-\ndred thousand good deeds could be done and helped, on that old\nwoman's money which will be buried in a monastery! Hundreds,\nthousands perhaps, might be set on the right path; dozens of\nfamilies saved from destitution, from ruin, from vice, from the\nLock hospitals — and all with her money. Kill her, take her\nmoney and with the help of it devote oneself to the service of\nhumanity and the good of all. What do you think, would not\none tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds? For\none life thousands would be saved from corruption and decay.\nOne death, and a hundred lives in exchange — it's simple arith-\nmetic! Besides, what value has the Ufe of that sickly, stupid*","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-20T15:28:52.948Z","text_extracted_by":"pdf-processor","text_has_content":true,"text_source":"born_digital","uploaded":true},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KFCZZ05FKVDDMJJV3YE9Q4WH","peer_label":"crimepunishment00dostiala.pdf","peer_type":"file","predicate":"derived_from"},{"peer":"01KESYJX0Z6XE0HWTS5N3SDG0B","peer_label":"The Classics","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-20T15:28:53.792Z","ts":"2026-01-20T15:28:54.855Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFCZWTBNJH4WFMS8354919KY"}}